Evergreen Forest of Mira-ri, Wando

The evergreen forest of Mira-ri, Wando, stretches for 400m along the coast of Soando Island, off Wando. The forest is made up of trees such as chinquapin, Siebold's chinquapin, chestnut, Japanese cinnamon, wax-leaf privet, Thunberg's machilus, silverberry, eurya, camellia and black pine. Since ancient times, villagers have gathered here to hold rites praying for the village's peace, a good harvest and safety at sea. Not only are few evergreen forests of this kind left in Korea today, but the evergreen forest of Mira-ri, Wando, also protects the village and its farmland from sea winds, giving it great value as folkloric and biological material worth preserving; it is therefore designated and protected as a Natural Monument.

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Where it is

Region

Wando, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Natural Monument · 천연기념물